Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To furl.
- n. A quarter or third part of a thin circular cake of flour or oatmeal. Also farrel.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A quarter of a thin oatmeal or flour cake.
- n. Any such cake or bread, now particularly used for Irish specialities as soda farls and potato farls.
- v. Obsolete form of furl.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete Same as furl.
Etymologies
- Contraction of fardel. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“While butter and jam are very nice on a soda farl, the BEST way to eat one (though not necessarily the healthiest) is to cut it crossways, fry the cut sides in a little bit of butter, and then serve it as a sandwich with crisp bacon (or sausages) and a fried egg.”
“It's the full English and then some – with added fried soda farl and potato bread.”
“The receptionist has no idea what constitutes an Ulster Fry or what a soda farl is.”
The Guardian: MBMs we wish we'd done in 2011 – No2: Darren Clarke's Open celebration | Scott Murray
“Part 2 contains instructions for “farl” and a very small dissertation on Irish tea.”
Uh oh, it’s March again: here comes St. Patrick’s Day… | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit"
“Apparently someone had actually dug that farl The beach was not fenced, but there was a heavy steel net and, beyond that, a persuasive tradition of sharks.”
Starchild Omnibus
“He poured out his tea, and then began to spread butter on a piece of soda-farl.”
“At the head of the staircase they stopped and watched the Princess as she went down the stairs and across the courtyard, her long white robe trailing behind her, with the cup of ruby-red wine in one hand, and the farl of cake in the other.”
“You take a tattie scone I believe the English call it a "potato farl" - no poetry in that name and, having fried it, you place it within the welcoming confines of a generously buttered morning roll.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“Nonsense, you need to die in a house fire you cat p1ss reeking, farl faced, hare lipped ugly fcuking cnut.”
“Ridley Scott's Monopoly movie has passed go; only a hotel on Mayfair can stop it now Crumpet, muffin, pikelet and farl recipes | Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Lucy Mangan: Every year I find more reasons not to turn on the heating”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘farl’.
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WWF WTF?
Ever play "Words With Friends" with someone and they throw down some strange, unlikely group of letters that makes even the most mild and squeaky clean tongued person say "whiskey tango foxtrot"? ...
oorie, sangar, merl, cwm, doum, weir, jura, invar, lawine, tapa, waw, shog and 376 more...
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kerniving, scandinavia, confectionary, mangrove, bejewelled, flesh, crystalline, gazelle, pantaloons, bluebird, caribou, albatross and 88 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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Foodie
As much fun to say as they are to eat.
blueberry, cider, almond, apricot, asparagus, banana, fudge, foldover, flapjacks, filbert, fig, biscuit and 217 more...
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A Crumb Of Comfort
Types of bread & breadmaking terms. Mainly I'm looking for plain or savoury breads but I'll accept the sweet-ish ones as long as they are more bread than cake :-)
lagana, khobz, pita, foccaccia, ciabatta, bap, altamura, knead, leaven, crumpet, muffin, bagel and 202 more...
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (F)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
faery, fairy cross, fairy ring, falcon, fare-thee-well, farewell-summer, farthing, faun, fawn, felicitous, felicity, fencing and 109 more...
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Ulysses
This is a list of the more difficult English words found in James Joyce's Ulysses. It will continually be updated as I read along. The list is in reverse chronological order, meaning that the last ...
equine, untonsured, corpuscle, prelate, parapet, dactyl, jejune, lancet, jalap, barbican, valise, dewsilky and 377 more...
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new vocab words
words I am just learning now, after all these years
Tweets
Looking for tweets for farl.
zentennum a thin circular cake of flour or oatmeal Aug 22, 2009
bilby An Irish griddle bread made from potatoes or a Scottish oatcake. Nov 27, 2007